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Kyoko Iwasaki

1978 - Today

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Kyoko Iwasaki (岩崎 恭子, Iwasaki Kyōko; married name: Kyoko Saito (斎藤恭子), born July 21, 1978) is a Japanese swimming coach and retired Olympic swimmer from Numazu, Shizuoka. She won the gold medal in the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She was 14 years and 6 days old, making her the youngest Olympic gold medalist in the discipline of swimming at the time. In 1998, the asteroid 35441 Kyoko was named after her. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Kyoko Iwasaki is the 4,868th most popular athlete (down from 3,960th in 2024), the 3,842nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,739th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 4,868 out of 6,025. Before her are Oskars Melbārdis, Flora Duffy, Sven Schmid, Sven Riederer, Jiang Lin, and Liam Parsons. After her are Álvaro Martín, Elijah Manangoi, Walter Dix, Olga Vasdeki, Frank Rutherford, and Eldaniz Azizli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 1,088. Before her are Didier Domi, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Ebrahim Mirzapour, Bram Tankink, Sven Schmid, and Michael Gravgaard. After her are Quique de Lucas, Rasoul Khatibi, Alexis Rodríguez, Tsutomu Kitade, Andrija Zlatić, and Sandro Luís Zamboni Britzke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 3,849 out of 6,245. Before her are Takahiro Shiraishi (1990), Rika Ishikawa (1985), Reiichi Mikata (1969), Kazuki Teshima (1979), Kunimitsu Sekiguchi (1985), and Masato Saito (1975). After her are Jun Kokubo (1980), Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu (1986), Chitose Hajime (1979), Kiyomitsu Kobari (1977), Masanobu Matsunami (1974), and Yōhei Kajiyama (1985).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 61. Before her are Junko Asari (1969), Masashi Ebinuma (1990), Miya Tachibana (1974), Takaharu Furukawa (1984), Tomokazu Harimoto (2003), and Seiya Suzuki (1994). After her are Hayato Sakamoto (1988), Hiromi Suzuki (1968), George Bennett (null), Takahiro Sunada (1973), Fumiko Okuno (1972), and Akiyo Noguchi (1989).

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